Boston Review - October 2018

Evil Empire 99 The Soviet Union moderated after Stalin’s death in 1953, but it was an exceptionally coercive state at the best o ...

Kimmage inexplicably did in Georgia in 2008 and then more ambitiously again in Ukraine in 2014. Russia was not just intransigent ...

Evil Empire 101 Germany had. It had more benign and more pathological phases, the later decades reflecting a steady softening si ...

Kimmage Soviet legacy was deemed bad. This scheme could make the political dynamics of the post-Soviet world unnecessarily obscu ...

Evil Empire 103 on. As a result, this side was seen as the sickly flower of media—and Putin’s—manipulation. By choosing sides at ...

Kimmage Not every Russian would disagree with this U.S. policy toward Europe, with the benefits it has brought, and with its int ...

Evil Empire 105 that came in 2014. The United States also has its reasons for supporting Ukraine, but its presence there is vivi ...

Pasquale Quantif ying Love Frank Pasquale the most successful Internet companies, it seems, all learned the lesson of Tom Sawyer ...

Evil Empire 107 We may soon do the same for government. Every society depends on free labor—work that is vital but which goes un ...

Pasquale system will reward volunteer activity and “filial piety”—devotion to one’s parents, grandparents, and perhaps other rel ...

Evil Empire 109 been blacklisted from travel. The SCS may also eventually rely on peer scoring, a method patented (though not im ...

Pasquale and must ensure that the lucky are not given credit merely for circumstance. A hospital in a war zone is going to have ...

Evil Empire 111 for algorithmic accountability may miss the forest for the trees. The commensuration at the heart of the SCS is ...

Pasquale sadly, the rush to monitor and measure goes well beyond the SCS. A global educational technology industry has pushed fo ...

Evil Empire 113 To some, the patterns for these stuffed animals and shawls serve as a cliché of the culture industry, plied by R ...

Bould Monsters vs. Empire Mark Bould on june 18, 2018, President Donald Trump took everyone by surprise. In the midst of remarks ...

Evil Empire 115 thus the global—economy in the 1980s, which transformed the world’s principal source of liquidity to the world’s ...

Bould be anticipated. “That for which we are not prepared,” Derrida writes, “is heralded by species of monsters.” But uncanny ar ...

Evil Empire 117 that resonated with the Gothic mood of the times, it was a reminder that empires fall as well as rise. Egypt—hov ...

Bould delight, for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness.” Or that she might lust after “the superior beauty of man” and jilt ...